The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23

| Senators wives.
Last year the Cabinet women were
| divided on the question. Some of them
called first on the Senator'S wives, others
sUood ont, or stood their ground, and did
not yield an inch. The Senatorial ranks
were also very firm, consequently there was
! spaISe interchange of calls between the con
| tending forces Cabinet families claim
superiority because part of the admins
Gatlon and their nearness to the President.
senate women say: 1.-THE Cabinet is made
by combinations of the Senate.n SO the
talk goes on, but first calls are at a stand
SUI. Nobody budges on either side.
Meanwhile the husbands and fathers are
jogging on after the old custom or etiquitte,
requiring Cabinet officers to call first on
Senators. The men have not attempted to
reyolutionize things at all. For a quarter
of century at least, Cabinet officers have
been punctilious about sending cards to all
Senators during the first week of Congress.
The present Cabinet officers are no excep-
ton, and last week their visiting cards went
flying about at the greatest rate in the
formal first calls" on Senators. But no
man, or rather no woman, can say when
the first calls" hostilities will cease between
the women of the Cabinet and Senatorial
circles.
Mrs Ingalls,, wife of the presiding officer
of the Senate, has shown herself a clever
and tactful woman. Her place now entities
her to first calls from wives of all other SEN
ators, just as the wife of Vice President
has the precedence. But Mrs. Ingalls, de-
clares that the compliment paid her husband
by Senators in making him President of the
Senate, does not warrant her in reversing
the order of etiquette between the wives of
senior and junior Senators. 1t is a fixed
law that the wife Of a new or junior Sena-
for mJ1St Nall first m fbn Xyifa of old on.
senior Senator; and Mrs. ingalls,, without
thinking of her new honor or having the
fear that she would weaken the dignity of
her new position, started out promptly, as
on former seasons, to call on the families of
Senators who have been longer in the SEN
ate than her husband. Going to Senator
Morrilrs house, she was asked, laughingly:
"W'ly, what are you here for! You know
we must call on you first, now that Senator
ingalls, is President Of the Senate"
"What nonsense that would be-" said
Mrs. Ingalls,. ''Of course | am very glad
and proud of the compliment to my hus-
band, but hope you do not think | am so
foolish as to include myself to such degree
as to turn calling etiquette all around, and
exact first calls, just because Senator Nor
rill helped to make my husband President
of the Senaten Then she added, laughing:
Don't try to send me home. l am calling
Oll y Ou lllSb, do lldNO dlWet ucDc anu SuAll
continue to do on all senior Senator's wives,
and nothing short of the White House will
prevent me from first calls right along
wherever have made them before. shall
get them all made before January, too, and
then 1 shall be ready to have them re-
turned"
1t will be seen that Mrs. ingalls, wasted no
time on the question whether, as the wife
of the President of the Senate, she should
stay at home to maintain the new dignity,
or like a sensible woman, do what she felt to
be the right thing. 1t is hardly probable
that a frank, sensible woman can do other
than add TO the dignity of her husbands
Office by so honest and simple course of
action, even in the very small trifie of first
calls.
Miss Ingalls,, the eldest daughter of Sena-
tor ingalls,, is one of several debutanteS to
come out after the holidays. She is a very
pretty young woman of 10, with large dark
eyes, sunny brown hair and a faultleSS COM
plexion. Miss Margaretta Cameron, the
third daughter of Senator Cameron, another
debutante, is about the same age, and is a
fair blonde. Her sister, Mary Cameron,
just year older, entered society last sea
son. She is also a blonde. Senator Cam
eron has two married daughters, Mrs. Brad
ley and Mrs. Rogers, and there is another
daughter, Rachael Cameron, still in school,
who is the youngest of the first Mrs. Cam
eron's children. With two young women
in society, the Cameron house is likely to be
full of life this season.
1t was at the Gordon Kilbourn wedding
reception the other day that guest ac-
costed Secretary Lamar with bow, and
"Ah, Mr.. Secretary, may I"
"No; not yet. | am not confirmed" in
terrupted the probable new Supreme Court
Justice quite seriously.
''Oh, but you will be- and then, perhaps,
/ shall not have the chance to"
81 can wait, anyhow" he again inter
rupted. ''Td rather give you the chance to
congratulate me after am confirmed
than before. Let us wait till we are sure,
at any rate"
Secretary and Mrs. Lamar will give up
their house about Jan. l, and take apart
ments for the winter. There is no doubt
that Mr.. Lamar will find the change
from the duties of the Interior Depart
ment to those of the court quite an agree
able one.
Representative Symes, of Colorado, has
taken the handsome house just off Dupont
Circle, formerly occupied by Secretary
Manning, for the term of the Fiftieth
Congress.
The gayest day of the week, socially was
Thursday, when Mr.. and Mrs. John w,
Foster gave large tea reception to their
guests, Mr.. and Mrs de Moran, of Mexico.
Perhaps no guest attracted more attention
than the Chinese Minister, because of his
fine jewels. A red topaz, quite an inch
long, set with diamonds, was conspicuous
on the front of his silk, close-fitting cap.
The celestial official is fond of jewels and
elegant brocades, and no woman's toilet is
observed more closely by visitors than the
Minister'S. The tea was an elegant party,
and from 4 to the DarlOrS We're filled with
large and merry company.
Among the dinners Of the week have
been one at the British Legation and one
given by Senator and Mrs. Palmer.
Senator Stanford's wife will give a series
of receptions in January.
THE HOUSE PERSONNEL,